Dared

Examples

• He had not dared to tell it sooner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She could not doubt, she dared not indulge a hope, of the paragraph being false. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• My Prince, he started, where hast thou-- and then he stopped, but I knew the question that his lips dared not frame. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It was undeniably exciting to meet a lady who found the van der Luydens' Duke dull, and dared to utter the opinion. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The enemy had not dared to come out of his line at any point to follow up his advantage, except in the single instance of his attack on Barlow. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There she lay, unconscious that I was looking at her--quiet, more quiet than I had dared to hope, but not sleeping. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I dared summon solitude to guard us. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Fear overcame me; I dared not advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• She dared not turn round to him--and there he stood motionless, unbroken. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I dared not answer the question. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• They dared not look over the wall, for fear of being seen; they were obliged to crouch behind it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I had been so confident of regaining the treaty at once that I had not dared to think of what would be the consequence if I failed to do so. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The intermediate month was the one fixed on, as far as they dared, by Emma and Mr. Knightley. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Mary dared not look at Fred. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Miss Mary declared she felt, for her part, she never dared venture. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I hastened on as rapidly as I dared through the darkness until I reached the point at which they had left the corridor. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I dared, I conquered them all, till now! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Nevertheless, in her new humiliating uncertainty she dared do nothing but comply. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Edward tried to return her kindness as it deserved, but before such witnesses he dared not say half what he really felt. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• But at that moment he dared not tell a lie, and he felt suddenly uncertain of his ground which he had trodden with some confidence before. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She dared not come oftener, for in the mighty guilt of her conscience she feared that her every move was watched. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• That was only a month to wait, and here was a lovely violet silk going at a bargain, and she had the money, if she only dared to take it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• No other professor would have dared to cross the carré before the class-bell rang. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Was he really so superior, and would he crush the poor worms which dared not aspire to his perfections? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I was not quite sure whether they had locked the door; and when I dared move, I got up and went to see. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I had dared and baffled his fury; I must elude his sorrow: I retired to the door. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• If HE'D been here, she said, those cowards would never have dared to insult me. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I hardly dared conjecture what space of time that expression implied. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Steerforth continued his protection of me, and proved a very useful friend; since nobody dared to annoy one whom he honoured with his countenance. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She would not have been puzzled, had she dared fix on them. Jane Austen. Emma.

Typist: Malcolm